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dragoon
(dr/@/'g/u/n )

noun (n)

  • a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen(noun.person)
    source: wordnet30
  • Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.(noun)
    source: webster1913

verb (v)

  • compel by coercion, threats, or crude means(verb.social)
    Synonym:
    railroad, sandbag
    source: wordnet30
  • subjugate by imposing troops(verb.social)
    source: wordnet30
  • To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.(verb)
    source: webster1913
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